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Tisha B’Av: Transforming Victimhood, Accessing Our Most Powerful Selves
The great challenge is learning how to honor the past while being able to create a future based on fresh ...
Judaism After Orthodoxy: Insights into the “OTD” Movement
Many of us have read some of the recent memoirs written by people who have left their Orthodox community of ...
Orthodoxy And Its Discontents
I’ve just read a book whose sole purpose is to denigrate Open Orthodoxy, its institutions and its principles.Nevertheless, Why Open ...
I Wasn’t Asking For Your Opinion.
Over 18 ½ years ago I was chosen to be the first Congregational Intern at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. ...
From the Plains of Moab to Pemberley
All posts are contributed by third parties. The opinions and facts in them are presented solely by the authors, and ...
Opening the Gates of Prayer
The women wore a variety of costumes, from Disney princesses to Queen Esther herself. Listening to them read the Megillah ...
Mother and Daughter Reflect on their First Mikveh Experience
BrendaIn August last year the eldest of our three daughters was married to her long time boyfriend that she met ...
What Should Be At the Top of Your Pre-Wedding To-Do List?
There I was. Twenty years old, newly engaged, and feeling like the luckiest girl in the world! I had a ...
Sharing My Shabbat Table
One of the most empowering things I have done since living on my own as an Orthodox Jewish “single” is ...
How the Unnecessary Became Necessary
I come from a rather Modern Orthodox, Ashkenazi family that is composed mostly of women. The only male in my ...
How Do the Rabbis in the Talmud Address Rape?
With the deplorable situation in Santa Clara (the Stanford rape case), there has recently been a media focus on rape. ...
Confronting the Awkwardness of Separating During Niddah
The most recent episode of “The Joy of Text” podcast featured a discussion on the time period when couples are ...